McLaughlin Grows Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program provides you the freshest locally grown produce possible, grown in the heart of the city. Using organic practices, McGrows staff harvest and rinse produce the day of pick-up/delivery, ready for your family’s table.

Community enCompass is a neighborhood development organization serving the core-city neighborhoods of Muskegon, MI. Follow the links below to learn how we work in four main areas, joining neighbors to transform our neighborhoods from the inside out!

Neighbors like Frank are rebuilding their lives…

Neighbors like Mike are our future but they’re also leaders today…

Neighbors like Nina are finding food can be medicine…

Neighbors like Bob are helping each other out…

OUR MISSION

is to empower neighbors and build community

Our mission is to empower neighbors and build community in the core city neighborhoods of Muskegon by sharing God's love, as we walk alongside neighbors, seeking justice and a better quality of life for all through long-term, sustainable changes. Community enCompass is a Christian Community Development Organization for the core city neighborhoods of Muskegon.

OUR VISION

is for a taste of SHALOM

Our vision is for a restored neighborhood, in which all neighbors have identified and have opportunity to use their God-given gifts towards the building and strengthening of their community. We envision a neighborhood where all the assets of our community are fully utilized, so that our neighborhood becomes more of a picture—or preview!—of heaven. A taste of SHALOM.

Community enCompass has been presented with the unique opportunity to save this gem of a home by relocating it from the Nims Neighborhood, where it is slated for demo in 3 weeks, to Downtown Muskegon, where there is currently a push for more homes.

The one thing Perry does not know how to do is sew, but being a good teacher is often paired with being a good learner. Perry saw a need within his community for a sewing class and he wanted to be able to provide that.

After what feels like an eternal winter, the sky is blue, the sun is shining and the grass is growing back from beneath the snow. The birds are out singing, people are back out in the streets, and we’re looking forward to many great things!

Send our YEP’s on College Tour - Research shows that regardless of gender, ethnicity or socioeconomic status, youth who take education trips and college tours have 59% better grades, 95% high graduation rates from high school, 63% higher college graduation rates and greater income 12% higher annually.

When our board and staff attempt to identify the reason why Community enCompass exists, we end up with phrases like “Neighborhood Transformation,” and “SHALOM in the City.” Lofty dreams for a rag-tag team of people who are often stumbling towards good. The year-end process of digging through data always makes me wonder..... how will we know once we’ve arrived? How will we know when our neighborhoods have been transformed and we taste SHALOM?

Monday, Sep 24th saw the accomplishment of Community enCompass’s 7th Annual Taste & See, a progressive dinner and tour through Muskegon's core city neighborhoods. Taste & See is both a fundraiser and an opportunity to showcase the great work happening in the core city neighborhoods and the best the culinary talent downtown Muskegon has to offer.

Dozens of neighborhood teenagers spent their summers doing internships through the Youth Empowerment Project. The PAID internships created an opportunity of high school students to gain experience in the fields of youth work, agriculture, construction, and gardening, building interpersonal skills and developing their resumes

Nina has bounced from house to house for over a decade, taking the initiative and engaged the services provided by almost every social service organization in the City---food assistance, substance abuse programs, parenting classes. She’s rented a place before, but the rent was higher than what she could afford—sometimes 70% of her total income, and she always ended up evicted.